The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Awarded on: 2024-10-10
"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"
Han Kang
Born: 1970-11-27 in Gwangju, South Korea
Gender: female
Field: South Korean writer (born 1970)
Biography
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a first for an Asian woman and for a Korean.